The money should enable the tribe to consolidate the equivalent of 7,000 to 8,000 acres, The Peninsula Daily News reported. That will put a small, though significant, dent into the fractionated land base on the reservation.

“The Quinault Nation will now proceed with landowner outreach, land research, valuation and purchase activities,” President Fawn Sharp told the paper.

Participation is entirely voluntary. Any land that is acquired will be
returned to tribes.

Since offers went out in in late 2013, Indian landowners have accepted nearly $668 million for their fractionated interests, according to the buy-back
program. The equivalent of 1.3 million acres have been returned to tribes.